Robertson, Taczak, and Yancey in “Notes toward a Theory of Prior Knowledge”, they discussed the topic of transferring prior knowledge to new situations, and how students can use their prior knowledge in new rhetorical situations, with the desired results. They theorized that there are three ways that students respond to new situations: drawing on previous knowledge and using it a way that is very similar to the way they have used it in the past, reworking what they know to fit the situation, and creating new knowledge and practices for how to use it. For the first type of transferring they mention, they give an example of a man, Eugene, who when faced with a new situation, broke up his writing into smaller goals so that it would be less complex